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Backstreet Boys roll these days, after the band surprised its legion of fans by announcing they're releasing their first-ever Christmas album!Howie Dorough spoke to ET's Lauren Zima and shared some of the major deets when it comes to their forthcoming Christmas album,. Dorough tells ET that, for starters, the band had to narrow down the number of songs for this album, and they finally settled on a 13-track album.Dorough says there was always something getting in the way of the band producing a Christmas album. More recently, it was the pandemic.

Missy Elliott has given advice to artists working on their second album, encouraging them to take risks and not allow themselves to be pigeonholed.“Sophomore albums are a very PIVOTAL time for [artists],” the rap icon tweeted yesterday (July 7). “Your sophomore album be stressful but it’s the BEST ALBUM to EXPERIMENT on! Don’t be AFRAID! Becuz If u play safe you will be BOXED in & its hard to get out because your fans get used to that 1 sound.”She continued: “Listen CLOSELY! Go with the songs you feel you should drop not what everyone else suggest! You the Artist must FEEL it YASELF because YOU are the one that have have to SELL it & CONVINCE ppl it’s HOT.

Thania Garcia The 1975 has officially kicked off its next era with the release of a new music video and song titled “Part Of The Band.” The song is the first single from the band’s upcoming fifth album, “Being Funny In A Foreign Language” (due Oct. 14 via Dirty Hit).Led by a crisp string arrangement, and co-produced by Jack Antonoff, “Part Of The Band” opens with frontman Matty Healy reminiscing on former love affairs. “And I fell in love with a boy, it was kinda lame,” he croons, in his signature sing-songy mumble.

Lizzo has unveiled the tracklist for her upcoming fourth album ‘Special’ before it’s officially released next week.As expected, the album will feature Lizzo’s most recent single ‘Grrrls’, which landed last month (and was subsequently altered to remove an ableist lyric). It’ll also feature April’s ‘About Damn Time’, however ‘Rumors’ – Lizzo’s collaboration with Cardi B, which they released last August – is absent from the tracklist.The full album will sport 12 songs, including one apparently named after Coldplay. As was the case with Lizzo’s last album, 2019’s ‘Cuz I Love You’, ‘Special’ will include a title track. It’ll also include a song that seems to celebrate her large queer following, ‘Everybody’s Gay’.Have a look at the tracklist for ‘Special’ below:THE OFFICIAL TRACKLIST FOR ‘SPECIAL’ -,OUT JULY 15THWHICH SONG ARE YOU MOST EXCITED FOR?!PRE-ORDER NOWWWWWW https://t.co/SPJv0LtJNz pic.twitter.com/jeGDzaVFTd— FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) July 6, 20221. ‘The Sign’ 2. ‘About Damn Time’ 3. ‘Grrrls’ 4. ‘2 Be Loved’ 5. ‘I Love You Bitch’ 6. ‘Special’ 7. ‘Break Up Twice’ 8. ‘Everybody’s Gay’ 9. ‘Naked’ 10. ‘Birthday Girl’ 11. ‘If You Love Me’ 12. ‘Coldplay’‘Special’ will arrive next Friday (July 15) via Nice Life and Atlantic – find pre-orders here.

Terence Nance is the visionary director behind the Afrofuturist HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. He's also a musician, having scored his 2012 film An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and, in 2012 released his debut EP Things I Never Had as Terence Etc.

Debbie Gibson is going back to the beginning.

Leaving her mark — again! Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are getting back to normal following his hospitalization and for this couple, that means tattoos.

J-Hope has revealed the tracklist for his solo album ‘Jack In The Box’.The BTS member is the first of the K-pop juggernauts to step forward with a debut record, which is due for release next Friday (July 15).He announced the album’s tracklist in a teaser clip on YouTube that lists his songs via abstract 3D designs.According to the clip, ‘Jack In The Box’ features 10 tracks – see the tracklist below.01. ‘Intro’02. ‘Pandora’s Box’03. ‘More’04. ‘Stop’05. ‘= (Equal Sign)’06. ‘Music Box: Reflection’07. ‘What if…’08. ‘Safety Zone’09. ‘Future’10. ‘Arson’Earlier this month, the singer released the music video for ‘More‘.The trippy video open with the K-pop idol receiving a mysterious unmarked package that transports him to a strange world once opened.

TikTok star Ophelia Nichols aka Mama Tot is reflecting on her husband’s emotional reaction to her son’s death.

UPDATED, 8:48 AM: A year after a federal judge first found in Sacha Baron Cohen’s favor, the Who Is America? host finally achieved victory in the almost-absurd $95 million defamation battle instigated by Roy Moore.

UPDATED, 8:48 AM: A year after a federal judge first found in Sacha Baron Cohen’s favor, the Who Is America? host finally achieved victory in the almost-absurd $95 million defamation battle with Roy Moore.

The Backstreet Boys are giving fans a big, early Christmas gift this year.

Expectant parents are being invited to take part in a spectacular new public art event from the organisers of the Manchester International Festival. Anyone expecting a baby in January 2023 is invited to take part in the event, which will "celebrate new life" with a series of lights beamed into the clouds to mark every new life born in the city.

Metric have spoken about how their new album ‘Formentera’ helped the band move forward through the uncertainty of the pandemic – while also reflecting on their two decades in music and the indie sleaze phenomenon.Speaking to NME in the run-up to the release of their eighth album, frontwoman Emily Haines described the new release, which arrives on Friday (July 8), as “probably the most important record that we can make other than our first album”.“Logistically, we could not get our band across the border and that was the longest we’ve gone without playing a show since we started,” Haines explained of working on the record during the pandemic. “There was a sense that this could actually be it – a lot of people are not going to bounce back in our industry.

the Blink-182 drummer tweeted “God Save Me” around the time he was picked up by an ambulance. He was subsequently taken to the hospital, where he was accompanied by wife Kourtney Kardashian. It was later revealed that the entertainer was suffering from pancreatitis, which was spurred by a recent colonoscopy.

Suede have announced details of an intimate European tour to follow their sold-out London dates – see the full list of shows below.Last month, the Britpop icons announced new album ‘Autofiction’ and details of two London gigs at Electric Ballroom.After the gigs sold out immediately, the band have now added a handful of gigs in mainland Europe onto the tour.In the week after the London shows, they will play Amsterdam, Cologne and more.See the full list of tour dates below. Ahead of the run, the band will play a sold out run of instore dates across the UK.OCTOBER 20225 – London, Electric Ballroom (sold out)6 – London, Electric Ballroom (sold out)8 – Amsterdam, Melkweg10 – Paris, La Maroquinerie11 – Cologne, Gloria-Theatre12 – Hamburg, GruenspanSuede’s ninth studio album is due for release on September 16 via BMG and can be pre-ordered here.Suede, made up of Brett Anderson, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert, Richard Oakes and Neil Codling, went “back to basics” for this new record according to a press statement.They hired “a rehearsal studio in deserted Kings Cross to collect a key, hump their own gear, set up and start playing,” before recording at London’s Konk studios.Speaking to NME about the album, frontman Brett Anderson said: “Every record is a reaction to the last record to some extent.

DOMi & JD Beck have announced details of new album ‘NOT TiGHT’, featuring their label boss Anderson .Paak alongside Mac DeMarco, Snoop Dogg and more.The jazz duo will release their new album on July 29 via .Paak’s new label APESHIT, and they collaborate with their label boss on first single ‘TAKE A CHANCE’, out today (July 6).Elsewhere on the 15-track album, DOMi & JD Beck will collaborate with Thundercat, Herbie Hancock, Busta Rhymes and more.Watch the video for Anderson .Paak collaboration ‘TAKE A CHANCE’ and see the album’s full tracklist below.1. ‘LOUNA’S Intro’ 2. ‘WHATUP’ 3. ‘SMiLE’ 4. ‘BOWLiNG’ (feat. Thundercat) 5. ‘NOT TiGHT’ 6. ‘TWO SHRiMPS’ (feat. Mac DeMarco) 7. ‘U DON’T HAVE TO ROB ME’ 8. ‘MOON’ (feat. Herbie Hancock) 9. ‘DUKE’ 10. ‘TAKE A CHANCE’ (feat. Anderson .Paak) 11. ‘SPACE MOUNTAiN’ 12. ‘PiLOT’ (feat. Snoop Dogg, Busta Rhymes, Anderson .Paak) 13. ‘WHOA’ (feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel) 14. ‘SniFF’ 15. ‘THANK U’In a recent Radar interview with NME, the pair discussed how they met Anderson .Paak and ended up signing to his label.“We discovered each other on Instagram and then finally met in New Orleans in 2019 when we were touring in Thundercat‘s band,” DOMi explained.

Another addition! After welcoming daughter Kulture in 2018, Cardi B and Offset continued to expand their family with son Wave.

Alvvays are back. The Canadian band have shared new song "Pharmacist" and revealed details of their first album since in five years.

K-pop stars BLACKPINK have announced an as-yet-untitled new album and an attendant world tour. The first songs from the new project will be released in August, and will represent the beginning of "a continuous large-scale project which will extend through the second half of the year," according to a press release.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorYG Entertainment has announced that K-pop powerhouse Blackpink are in the final stages of recording a new album that will be released next month. The album, the second full-length, “starts a continuous large-scale project which will extend through the second half of the year,” according to the announcement.The company stated, “A lot of Blackpink-esque music has been prepared over a long period of time.

Parkway Drive have announced their seventh studio album, ‘Darker Still’ – check out the video for new track ‘The Greatest Fear’ below.The Australian band, whose latest record ‘Reverence’ arrived in 2018, will release their next full-length effort on September 9 via Epitaph. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.Arriving today (July 6), the thrashing latest single from the forthcoming album is accompanied by a cinematic video directed by James Chappell.“The greatest fear, the one we all share; this song is about the unifying force we all must face – death,” explained frontman Winston McCall of the song, which follows on from ‘Glitch’.“The goal was to create a song that saw death not as something that separates, but something that connects us all on our paths.

Alvvays have announced their third album ‘Blue Rev’ and shared a new single, ‘Pharmacist’ – listen below.The Canadian dream-pop group will release the follow-up to 2017’s ‘Antisocialites’ on October 7 via Transgressive – you can pre-order/pre-save it here.Arriving today (July 6), the hazy two-minute track ‘Pharmacist’ serves as the first preview of the long-awaited record. ‘Blue Rev’ will also feature ‘After The Earthquake’ and ‘Many Mirrors’, both of which were debuted by Alvvays when they supported The Strokes in LA last October.Other song titles include ‘Easy On Your Own?’, ‘Very Online Guy’, ‘Pomeranian Spinster’, ‘Bored In Bristol’ and ‘Lottery Noises’.

seventh studio album is set to drop on July 29, made the decision after her former collaborator was charged with rape, The Sun reported Tuesday.Music producer Detail, who won a Grammy in 2015 for co-writing Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s smash hit “Drunk in Love,” was accused of sexual abuse in 2020. He has vehemently denied the claims.Detail, whose real name is Noel Fisher, was arrested in August 2020 on 15 counts of sexual assault and five counts of felony assault for alleged attacks between 2010 and 2018.The producer, who has also produced hit songs for Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj, was held on almost $6.3 million bail and has no part in the singer’s latest music release.But in an ultra-cautious bid to avoid getting caught up in any potential messiness, the multi-Grammy Award winner resorted to vetting her collaborators.“Beyonce was devastated when she found out Detail, one of her past collaborators, was accused of rape and sexual assault,” a source told The Sun.“She stopped working with him and her team now run #MeToo checks on any potential collaborators.

Christine & The Queens has announced their third studio album ‘Redcar les adorables étoiles’ and shared details of a new live show.Following on from 2018’s acclaimed ‘Chris’, the upcoming record will see the French singer-songwriter (real name Héloïse Letissier) perform under an alias called Redcar. It’ll arrive on September 23 – pre-order/pre-save here.Christine released the first single from the project, the entirely French-language ‘Je te vois enfin’, on June 24.Per a press statement, the song ushered in “a new era” for the artist after they hinted in 2020 that they were hard at work on a “vast, hopeful and ambitious” new album.

Shotts Bon Accord boss John McKeown admits it’s a major blow to lose striker Danny Burns to Stirling Albion, but says getting forward John McStay back from injury is like signing a new player.

VIVIZ have released the music video for ‘Loveade’, the title track for their sophomore mini-album ‘Summer Vibe’.In the playful visual, each member of VIVIZ is seen preparing to tackle new hobbies. Eunha begins doing warm-ups in a dance studio, SinB sets up her mobile drink stand and Umji practices archery.Despite their best efforts, the girls begin running into issues with their hobbies: Eunha struggles with a specific move, SinB’s blender malfunctions and spills a drink she was preparing, while Umji misses the target board.“The hot sunlight heats up between you and me / Swallow the heart that spilled over a piece of summer / This dizzying tremor, / I won’t miss even a single drop,” the trio sings in the pre-chorus.‘Summer Vibe’ marks VIVIZ’s second release of the year.

The new season begins for Stirling Albion on Saturday when they travel to play League 2 rivals Dumbarton in Premier Sports Cup Group A.

Chung Ha has released a “highlight medley” for her upcoming sophomore full-length record, ‘Bare & Rare’.Yesterday (July 5), the K-pop idol released a video that features snippets of all eight songs from her forthcoming record, including title track ‘Sparkling’ and ‘Crazy Like You’, her collaboration with 88rising singer-songwriter BIBI.According to the tracklist, ‘Crazy Like You’ will feature lyrics co-written by both Chung Ha and BIBI. Notably, former Big Hit Music producer and singer ADORA, known for her work with BTS, Tomorrow X Together and GFRIEND, is listed as a producer on ’Good Night My Princess’.Meanwhile, Australian producer Tushar Apte appears as a producer and songwriter on the track ‘Louder’.

Mark Tuan has officially announced his long-awaited debut solo album.Today (July 6), the Taiwanese-American K-pop idol, who is also a member of boyband GOT7, teased his first full-length album as a solo artist. The post featured a moving visual that features the singer’s name and as well as the record’s name, ‘The Other Side’.“FINALLY!! My first album is coming out!!” wrote Tuan in the post.

Keeping their distance? Travis Barker’s ex-wife Shanna Moakler and Kourtney Kardashian may have the Blink-182 drummer in common, but the extent of their relationship ends there.

Thania Garcia Bad Bunny’s “Un Verano Sin Ti” has now spent three nonconsecutive weeks at No. 1, becoming the only all-Spanish-language album to ever spend multiple weeks atop the Billboard 200 chart.The 23-track set has the second-most weeks at No. 1 in 2022, following the “Encanto” soundtrack, which had nine.

Getting recognized is great, but for Cardi B, having one of the best hip-hop albums of all time came with some downsides.

The Hardest Part.“I'm not trying to be, like, any spokesperson for recovery or anything like that. I, myself, am just going through it and figuring it out,” the now 22-year-old said.

Roxy Music‘s greatest hits album ‘The Best Of Roxy Music’ is set to be reissued on vinyl for the very first time.Originally released in 2001, the 18-track collection includes classic singles such as ‘More Than This’ (1982), ‘Over You’ (1980) ‘Angel Eyes’ (1979) and the Bryan Ferry-fronted group’s 1981 cover of John Lennon‘s ‘Jealous Guy’.The record will arrive on 2LP 180-gram black vinyl and limited yellow vinyl D2C exclusive editions on September 2 via Virgin/UMC.Both versions boast restored and enhanced artwork and lyrics, and have been remastered at half-speed by Miles Showell at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios. You can pre-order your copy here.‘The Best Of Roxy Music’ will be released on vinyl ahead of Roxy Music’s first UK shows in over a decade, which are due to take place in October.

Sparks have entered the studio to work on what will be their 27th studio album, as revealed on the band’s Instagram.The post, shared yesterday (July 4), shows the Mael brothers in front of a home computer set up with recording software. Vocalist Ron Mael is sat at the computer, while keyboardist Russell Mael is standing and holding a note pad with chord progressions written on it.